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Last week, after a five-day rainfall that saturated the so-called "Golden Heart of Alaska" with more than six inches of rain, the 200-ft.-wide Chena spilled disastrously over its banks and deluged Fairbanks. Floodwaters swirled through the state's second largest city at depths up to 9 ft., inundating cars, lapping at second-story windows, crumbling foundations. Before the rains abated toward week's end, some 15,000 of Fairbanks' 30,000 residents were homeless. At least seven, including two in the flooded village of Tok 200 miles to the southeast, were dead...
Sardonic Humor. Guns & Ammo, one of Robert Petersen's string of Los Angeles-based sports publications (Hot Rod, Car Craft), has the second largest circulation: 222,384. Its specialty is sardonic humor. "I was reading the other day," began a recent article, "about a gal in Baltimore who did in her boy friend with a nine-iron, and I'm here to tell you it's about time lethal weapons such as this should be regulated by the Federal Government. First, there should be a nationwide registration of all golf clubs. . ." Echoing this wit, Guns suggested that...
...Rayonier Inc., a $171 million-a-year manufacturer of pulp products. The communications giant also has a line out in hopes of acquiring Western Power & Gas Co., a public utility operating in 13 states from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic. - General Telephone & Electronics Corp., the nation's largest independent telephone system, stood to get even larger by agreeing to a $145 million stock transaction that will merge Northern Ohio Telephone Co. into a new General Telephone subsidiary. The takeover of Northern Ohio, which serves 161,000 telephones in 24 Ohio counties, comes just three months after an even...
...John Nuveen & Co., one of the nation's largest municipal bond houses, was negotiating for the purchase of Arthur Wiesenberger & Co., a New York Stock Exchange member firm whose founder, now 70, went into the business in 1938 after a colorful career as an author on merchandising (one of his books: Merchandising Bargain Basements). For Chicago-based Nuveen, acquiring Wiesenberger would be in line with the recent trend among municipal bond houses, which have diversified into other securities operations because of increasingly vigorous competition from commercial banks...
Fiscal & Physical. Success has become a habit with Jonathan Logan. The firm is the nation's largest dressmaker, with anticipated 1967 sales of $210 million. And Richard Schwartz, since succeeding his father in 1964 as chief executive officer, has emerged as the David Merrick of the business. The twelve divisions that make up his organization provide a dress for just about any figure, fiscal as well as physical...